Motto – main topic
Balancing Sustainability, Ecodesign and Economic Pressure: the Future Competitiveness of Europe’s Formulation Industry
- Price and performance versus sustainability
- Low energy and low-CO2 formulations
- Safety, lifecycle, regulations and ecolables
- Removing PFAS in formulations
- Minimization of solvent depedency
- Formulation of and with biologics, bio-based materials and other bio-actives
Further topics
Digital formulation, data handling and use and capabilities of AI tools
- Digital formulation, data handling and management, and AI tool capabilities
Formulation design; disruptive innovations
- Formulation of concentrates and its challanges
- New solubilization strategies beyond traditional solvents and surfactants
- New visions for future formulation
Fundamental science: mechanisms, structure-function relationships and theoretical modelling
- Process and scale-up optimization, characterization methods and formulation performance
Formulation performance, process and scaling optimization and measurement techniques
- Coatings for defence
- Sensoriality and surface performance of formulations
- New analytical methods
- Scale up challenges from laboratory to industry
- From physicochemical characterization to end use properties